BORT, Catherine M.

BORT

Posted By: Kathy Gerkins (email)
Date: 9/11/2013 at 17:23:31

BORT, Catherine M.

The remains of Mrs. Ben E. Bort were laid in Riverside this afternoon. A great following of friends were present at the funeral service which was held from the home on the West side at 1:30.

At the request of the daughter only a simple service was conducted. Dr. Troy of the English Methodist Church making a few comforting remarks. A long cortege followed the body to the cemetery.

Next Sunday morning Dr. Troy will preach a memorial sermon in memory of this lady whose friends numbered by the hundreds. In connection with this the ladies of the Missionary Society are requested to meet in the basement of the church preceding the sermon that they may be present in the church in a body during the sermon.

Mrs. Bort was a member of that society and one of the most earnest workers. The O. E. had charge of the services at Riverside this afternoon.

[Newspaper clipping from the Floyd County Museum]

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Source: Decorah Republican Nov. 23, 1899 P 8 C 4

Killed by Coal Gas.

Charles City, Nov. 16.—At 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning the neighbors of Mrs. B. E. Bort, who resides on Clin­ton street, made the sad discovery that during the night she had been asphyx­iated by gas from her coal stove. When the physician first arrived it was his opinion she could not live and she died at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Bort has lived alone most of the time since her husband died a few years ago. Mrs. Bort is a woman of some means and has lived alone somewhat from choice. The stove is in the sitting room just off the bed room occupied by Mrs. Bort.

Transcriber's Note: Find a Grave shows this was Catherine who was born in 1826 and is buried in Riverside Cemetery.